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			Professor Kerrie Mengersen
			[Print-friendly version] I graduated with Hons (Class 1, 1985) and a PhD in Statistics from University of New England (1989). After participating in a commercial statistical consulting company for two years I joined the academic staff of Bond University , Central Queensland University and Colorado State University before settling at QUT from 1994 to 2000. I was appointed to the position of Professor and Chair of Statistics at The University of Newcastle in 2001. In 2004 I moved to QUT in Brisbane to take up an invited Research Chair in Statistics. My main research interests are in Bayesian statistics and mixture models, biometrics, biostatistics, environmental modelling and genetic statistics. In the last five years I have attracted four three-year large ARC grants (one sole), four three-year ARC SPIRT grants (with Department of Natural Resources, two local hospitals and Genetic Solutions) and numerous industry and internal research grants. I am also a Program Director in a new ARC Centre of Excellence in Bayesian Learning Approaches to Control, in collaboration with the Engineering Faculty at The University of Newcastle. I was a CI on a (unsuccessful) submission for a continuing CRC on marsupials and am a CI on a submission for a NHMRC Centre on Aging, the result of which is as yet unknown. As Coordinator of the Statistical Consulting unit at QUT for 6 years and co-Director of Newstat Ltd at The University of Newcastle, I supervise and participate in continuing education short courses and commercial consultancies to a very wide variety of clientele. Further consulting and management experience is derived through my position as Director of BioInfo Pty Ltd, a statistical consulting company. My teaching experience includes core undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and service courses to health and business. I am an active teacher, teaching a full load at all undergraduate and graduate levels. I have initiated and contributed to the development of postgraduate coursework and research programs within the University, initiated a full web-based off-campus statistics program and initiated cross-institutional sharing of statistics courses. In the past 7 years I have published 8 book chapters, 26 papers in international refereed journals and 9 refereed conference publications. During this time I have presented 15 papers, many of them invited, at local and international conferences. I am currently primary supervisor of four PhD and two Masters students, with four PhD and three Masters students successfully graduated from QUT, two Masters students from Central Queensland University and two PhD students (co-supervised) from Colorado State University . Currently I am Deputy Director of the Science Research Centre. I was recognised as an Accredited Member of the Statistical Society of Australia in 2001, was elected as a Fellow  of the Royal Statistical Society in 2004 and became an elected Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (2005). I am Program Chair of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) 2005-2006 with organizational responsibilities for Valencia/ISBA 2006 in Spain I am also a member of the Program Committee for the Australian and New Zealand Statistical Conference (ASC) in Auckland in 2006. I was a member of the Program Committee for the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (Chile, 2004) and Program Chair and Local Organising Committee Chair for the first International Workshop for the Australasian Society for Bayesian Analysis (Stradbroke Island, 2004). I have been re-elected in 2005 to the Board of the Wesley Research Institute in Brisbane. I have been invited to present the prestigious Cornish Lecture in Statistics in August 2005. Invited conference presentations during 2004-2005 are as follows: MODSIM (Sydney, 12/05), NZSA (Dunedin, 07/05), International Workshop on Statistical Modelling satellite meeting (Sydney, 04/05), IMS/ISBA (Bormio, Italy, 01/05), ISBA (Chile, 09/04), ASC/IBC (Cairns, 07/04). I have been active in designing and delivering short courses for commercial clients on topics ranging from industrial statistics to frontier research, undertaking  five such courses in four states in 2004 (QTL Analysis workshop  at UNE, NSW; Bayesian Analysis workshops in  Armidale NSW, Brisbane Qld,  Perth WA, Canberra ACT) .
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